The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-04-22
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
An Easter Discourse on the sOver-
throw Of tho Monster"


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I Of Body and Soul
Rev T. Dewitt Talmage took FOR the
subject Of his Easter sermon ct the brook
Ign Tabernacle 1.-THE Overthrow of the
Monster" taking for his text:
He wii swallow mp death In yictory.-Ysaiah
XIV, g
About 1853 Easter mornings have wax.
ened the earth. In France for three cent.
ufies the slmanacs made the year begin
ct Easter. until Charles TX made the year
begin ct January l. In the Tower of Lon
don there Is . royal payroll Of Edward l.,
on which there is an entry Of eighteen
pence for four hundred coiored and pict-
ured Easter eggs, with which the p.ople
sported. In Russia slaves were fed and
aims were distributed on Easter
Ecclesiastical councils met at Poutus,
at Gaul. at Rome, at Achala, to decide the
particular day, and after u controversy,
more animated than gracious. decided it
and now through all Christendom. in some
way, the first Sunday after the full moon
which happens upon or next after March
Il Is filled with Easter rejoicing.
The Royal Court Of the Sabbaths: is
made up OF fifty-two. Fifty-one are
Princes in the royal household, but East
er In Queen. She wears q richer diadem
and sways . more jeweled scepter, and in
her smile nations are irradiated. Unusu-
ally welcome this year, because Of the
harsh winter and the late spring, she
seems to step out of the snow-bank rath-
er than the conservatory, come out Of the
North rather than the South, out of the
Arctic, rather than the tropics, dismouut-
ing FROM an icy equinox, but welcome this
queenly day, holding high up in her
right hand the wreuched-of bolt OF
Christ's sepulcher, and holding high up
IN her left hand the key to all the GENE
teries in Christendom.
1t is an exciting thing to see an army
routed and flying. They run each other
down. They scatter every thing valuable
in the track. Unwheeled artillery, hoof
of horse on breast Of wounded and dying
man. You have read Of the French fall
ing back from Sedan, or Napoleon's track
of 60. 00O corpses in the snow banks Of
Russia, or Of the retreat Of our own arm
les from Manassas, or Of the five Kings
tumbling over the rocks of Bethorau with
their armies, while the hail-storms Of
heaven and the swords of Joshua's host
struck them with their fury.
In my text is awOrse discontinue. It
seems that black giant proposed to con-
quer the earth. He gathered for his host
all the aches and pains and malarias and
cancers and distempers and epidemics Of
the ages. He marched them down, drill
ing them in the northeast wind and amid
the slush Of tempests. He threw up barri-
cades Of grave-mounds. He pitched tent
of charnel house. Some of the troops
marched with slow tread commanded BY
consumptions, some in double-Qrick. COM
manded by pneumonias. Some he took BY
long besiegement Of evil habit, and some
BY one stroke Of the battle axe of casual.
ty. With bony hand he pounded Ut the
door Of hospitals and sick-rooms, and
won all the victories in all this great bat
tlefields Of all the five continents. For
ward, march, the conQ1eror of conquerors,
and all the generals and commanders In
chief, and all presidents and kings and
sultans and cars drop under the feet of
his WAT charger.
But one Christmas night his antagonist
was born. As most of the plaques and
sicknesses and despotisms come out of
the East, it was appropriate that the
new conqueror should come out Of the
same quarter. Power is given
him to awaken all the fallen of
all the centuries and of AL lands, and
marshal them against ths black giant
Fields have already been Won, but the last
day of the worlds existence will see the
decisive battle. When Christ shall lead
forth his two brigades, the brigade Of the
risen dead, and the brigade of the celestial
host, the black giant will fall back, and
the brigade from the riven sepulchres
will take him from beneath and the
brigade of descending immortals will take
him from above. and death shall be swal-
lowed up in victory.
The old braggart that threatened the
conquest and demolition Of the planet has
lost his throne, has lost his scepter, has
lost his palace, has lost his prestige. and
the one word written over all the gates Of
mausoleum and catacomb and Metropolis;
on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on the
lonely khan OF the Arctic explorer and on
the catafalqus Of great cathedral; written
in capitals Of a1alea and Gala lily, written
in musical cadence, written in doxoloey
Of great sssemblages; written on the
sculptured door Of the family vault, is
"victorv." Coronal word, embannered
word, apocalyptic word, chief word of the
triumphal arch under which conquerors
return.
victoryl Word shouted at Culloden and
Balaklava and B!enheim, at Me9iddo and
Solferino, at Marathon, where the Aths-
where Charles Xartel br oke the ranks Of
the Saracens; at Salamis, where Themis-
tocles in the great sea-dght COMPOUNDED
Eastern cavern Of chiseled rock, where
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